A broadband compound printed air-fed array antenna

Author

He, X. ; Zhang, W.X. ; Fu, D.L.

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Millimeter Waves, Southeast Univ., Nanjing

fYear

2008

fDate

9-12 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

266

Abstract

A successful design for a broadband compound printed air-fed array antenna is presented. By using the tapered sized frequency selective surface (FSS) on the cover and the inversely tapered sized artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) on the base as well as removing the four corners of the cover and base for the weak aperture field there, a common (VSWRles 2.0:1 & -1 dB gain-drop) bandwidth of 9.84% centered at 10 GHz and a common bandwidth of 7.9% centered at 10.5 GHz are obtained respectively in simulation and measurement. The differences between the simulated and measured results are also analyzed.

Keywords

antenna feeds; broadband antennas; conducting bodies; frequency selective surfaces; microstrip antenna arrays; broadband compound printed air-fed array antenna; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 10.5 GHz; inversely tapered sized artificial magnetic conductor; tapered sized frequency selective surface; weak aperture field; Antenna arrays; Apertures; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Conductors; Frequency measurement; Frequency selective surfaces; Gain measurement; Magnetic field measurement; Size measurement; Air-fed array antenna; Fabry-Perot resonator; broadband antenna; printed antenna;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Metamaterials, 2008 International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2608-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2609-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/META.2008.4723592

Filename

4723592